Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba

Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba was an Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary group formed in 2013 as a splintergroup of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq and led by Sheikh Akram Kaabi, a former commander of AAH. Most of the militia was composed of veterans of the Iraq War against the United States, and the group was based out of Samarra. Harakat Nujaba was one of the first Shi'ite paramilitaries to send fighters to assist the Syrian Arab Republic in the Syrian Civil War, and it fought against both the Islamist rebels there and in the Iraqi Civil War. However, it claimed that it was not fighting side-by-side with the Americans, saying that they were still their enemies.